by Brad Warner

Brad

I thought Iíd try and answer a couple more e-mail questions: Many times in your writing I come across the idea, in one form or another, that “You’ll never be free of your problems, nor would you ever want to be.” — I have some questions about this approach. — What about the natural drive […]

You guys can say whatever you want. All I know is that the comments section under my Suicide Girls articles is always pleasurable and informative. The comments section here is like a visit to the nut house. OK. Iím overstating things. As usual. I always overstate things. Thatís one thing you should know. I always […]

I saw Roky Erickson at the El Rey Theater last night. For those who donít know, Roky Erickson was the leader of the 13th Floor Elevators, the worldís first psychedelic rock band. The Elevators were from Austin, Texas, of all places. In Austin, Roky and the band faced constant harassment from the authorities who didnít […]

Wow. Lookee. I got a big ol’ article in the Associated Press. A writer named Eric Talmadge showed up at our retreat in Shizuoka in September in order to write a story about it. Though he had no great interest in Zen, he made it through the entire retreat, all those millions of hours of […]

I’m back. And so are the damned Holosync ads. Look. There’s no such thing as meditation by machine. Bag those CDs. Anyway, here’s a better view of that thing that Ian MacKaye signed at Air’s Video in Tokyo. You can kinda sorta see his picture in this one. Ian MacKaye is still alive. Apparently a […]